This eight-page workbook prints as four double-sided sheets. The fun text uses a lot of dialogue to explain the causes of the American Revolution in language that students in the primary grades can understand.

"It is the French and Indian War that has brought about this rebellion of the American colonists against George the Third," said the French statesmen when the Revolution began.

"I have always feared that a rebellion would be the result of the French and Indian War," said the great William Pitt of England.

"We learned our lessons in the French and Indian War," said the American colonists.


Now, what do you suppose these people meant? How did the French and Indian War bring about the American Revolution? Why did William Pitt fear this result? What were the lessons that the American colonists believed they had learned from it?

This workbook is from our series adapted from America's Story for America's Children. Click here to print. For more of our free primary workbooks and worksheets for Social Studies, click here.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.